It shouldn't (couldn't?) be called "Open" anything as it will be based on proprietary Microsoft code. So even if you did want this up to date version of 98-lite (some of you may recall it), you would still need to fork over the readies to Microsoft for the licenses.

Rhakios wrote:It shouldn't (couldn't?) be called "Open" anything as it will be based on proprietary Microsoft code. So even if you did want this up to date version of 98-lite (some of you may recall it), you would still need to fork over the readies to Microsoft for the licenses.

I got the impression Candy was thinking M$ would release this, so although it wouldn't be "Open" anything, they would be able to give it away free.

Since the white coats haven't reached me on the other forum, yet, I just have to ask "Isn't there already an open source "Windows" project seeking to reverse-engineer Windows much in the way Linux reversed Unix?"

<insert sound of typing into Google>

Ah, yes. ReactOS http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html I'm sure you could design your "Sea Lion" theme to use with it. My Computer would become The Aquarium. The Desktop could feature a Tamagotchi-eque Sea Lion that you have to frequently click on to care for by feeding it "candy".

Then you could go out to the OSSWin Sourceforge project and replace the M$ bloated apps with their open source equivalents.